Article Spotlight: An early look at sXBL - When XSLT isn't enough

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

IBM developerWorks has published an article by Elliotte Rusty Harold
- of XML in a Nutshell, XML Bible and Effective XML book fame - titled
"An early look at sXBL - When XSLT isn't enough".

The article summary states:

SVG's XML Binding Language -- sXBL -- is an XML vocabulary being
developed at the W3C as a means of mapping XML elements in arbitrary
vocabularies to SVG pictures that represent those elements. For
example, an XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) document can be turned into
SVG code that shows the actual Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagram
encoded in the XMI document. But sXBL takes the separation of
presentation from content one step further: It is a generic language
for rendering documents as arbitrarily complex two-dimensional
pictures. This article offers an overview of this emerging and
potentially powerful technology.


Elliotte concludes:

Longer term, the W3C working group is planning to implement target
formats other than SVG. For example, you'll be able to use similar
techniques to write stylesheets that produce XUL or XAML to bind
directly into the browser. It seems likely that sXBL will become a key
part of the next-generation World Wide Web.

Full story @ http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-sxbl1

What's your take? Do you think XBL (XML Binding Language) is a
better alternative to CSS or XSL/T for creating XAML or XUL content?

- Gerald





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